Is This Proof That the President Is Going Senile?

"Apparently, some of the geniuses in the White House communications office decided to reply to the gathering storm concerning the president's mental and physical capacities by giving him a busy week of public appearances. The results were ... not great. First, there was a lengthy interview with Dasha Burns of Politico. Granted, Burns could have done a better job following up on the various fantastical lies spun out of the president's sputtering cortex. But, let's concentrate on some of what he actually said."

"I should point out that the Honduran government is planning to arrest Hernandez at the first opportunity. The president replied: Well, I don't know him. And I know very little about him other than people said it was like, uh, an Obama-Biden type setup, where he was set up there are many people fighting for Honduras, very good people that I know. And they think he was treated horribly, and they asked me to do it, and I said I'll do it."

The White House arranged a busy schedule of public appearances for the president amid questions about his mental and physical capacities. A lengthy interview with Dasha Burns included fantastical claims, incoherent statements, and evasive responses. The president pardoned Honduran ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez while claiming little knowledge about him and citing unspecified people who said Hernandez was "set up." The president asserted that prices are dropping after ten months despite tariffs having raised consumer costs and taxpayer-funded relief for farmers. A later speech at a Pennsylvania casino presented an optimistic portrayal of the economy that conflicted with observable realities.

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